Amusement device.



No. 841,468. PATENTED JAN. 15, 1907.

P. A. TILYOUI.

AMUSEMENT DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB, a. 1906.

UNrrn srarns Parana OFFICE.

AMUSEMENT DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 15, 1907.

Application filed February 3.1906. Serial No. 299,302.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, PETER A. TILYOU, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Greater New York, borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Amusement Devices, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to amusement devices.

It has for its object particularly to provide an amusement device for the entertainment of the public at pleasure-resorts, embodying a rotatable structure designed to serve as a hotel and having the general shape and outlines of a barrel.

- It has for a further object to pro vide a device of the character set forth which is attractive in appearance and simple and inexpensive in construction.

With this end in view my invention consists in providing an outer revoluble shell having floors and balconies, a central hollow fixed cylinder or guide to revolubly support the shell and serve as a shaft for elevators to convey the patrons to the different floors of the structure, and means for revolving the outer shell.

In the drawings, Figure l is a side view of my device broken away to show the interior, and Fig. 2, a horizontal sectional view taken on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1.

In both figures of the drawings illustrating my device like reference characters designate corresponding parts.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates a vertically-extending cylinder or guide having doorways 2 and being fixed by embedding its lower end in the ground or in any other suitable way. A barrel-shaped shell 3 surrounds the cylinder 1 and is revolubly supported upon rollers 1, secured to the bottom thereof in boxes and riding on a circular track 5, and this shell is provided with windows 5, floors 6 to which the doorways 2 of the cylinder 1 lead, a door 7, leading to the lower floor 8, and doorways 9, leading to the surrounding balconies 10, so that the patrons of the barrel-hotel can view the surrounding country from different heights and in all directions.

The shell 3 is held in upright position and guided in its rotary movement by rollers 11, secured to the edges of the floors adjacent the cylinder 1 in boxes and bearing against said cylinder.

To provide means for revolving the shell, a circular rack 12, secured to its bottom, is engaged by a worm 13, secured on the shaft 14 of a motor 15.

The patrons are carried to the different floors of the hotel, from whence they can go to the balconies by elevators 16, installed in the cylinder 1.

To add to its attractiveness, the top of the barrel is provided with a fence l7 and at the bottom it is surrounded by a fence.

I do not wish to limit myself to the precise details and arrangements of parts shown and described, but reserve the right to all modifications within the scope of my invention.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In an amusement device, a verticallydisposed hollow fixed cylinder, a non-vertically-movable barrel-shaped shell surround ing said cylinder and revoluble therearound, floors in said shell, balconies surroundin said shell, doorways in said shell leading from the floors to the balconies, doors in said cylinder leading therefrom to the floors in the shell, rollers on the floors bearing against said cylinder, rollers on the bottom of said shell for revolubly supporting it, and means for revolving said shell, substantially as described.

2. In an amusement device, a verticallydisposed hollow fixed cylinder, elevators in said cylinder, a non-vertically-movable barrel-shaped shell surrounding said cylinder from end to end and revoluble therearound, floors in said shell, balconies surrounding said shell, doorways in said shell leading from the floors to the balconies, doors in said cylinder leading h'om the elevators to the floors in the shell, rollers on the floors bearing against said cylinder-rollers on the bottom of said shell for revolubly supporting it, and means for revolving said shell, substantially as described.

In an amusement device, disposed hollow cylinder, a non-verticallymovable barrel shaped shell surrounding said cylinder from end to end and revoluble therearound, floors in said shell, balconies surrounding said shell doorways in said shell leading from the floors to the balconies, doors in said cylinder leading therefrom to the floors in the shell, rollers on the floors bearing against said cylinder, rollers on the bottom of said shell for revolubly supporting it, a

a verticallyrack on the bottom of said shell and means 1 engaging said rack for revolving said shell, substantially as described.

4. In an amusement device, a verticallydisposed hollow cylinder, elevators in said cylinder, a non-vertioally-movable barrelshaped shell surrounding said cylinder from end to end and revoluble therearound, floors in said shell, balconies surrounding said shell doorways in said shell leading from the floors to the balconies, doors in said cylinder leading from the elevators to the floors in the shell, rollers on the floors bearing against said cylinder, rollers on the bottom of said shell for revolubly supporting it, a rack on the bottom of said shell and means engaging said rack for revolving said shell, substan tially as described.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 31st day of January, A. D. 1906.

PETER A. TILYOU.

Witnesses:

STANHOPE H. HGMURRAY, (J. L. WOLF. 

